The Amtrak Hiawatha.

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  1. hollis#5696

    hollis#5696 New Member

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    The Amtrak Hiawatha is an 86-mile (138 km) train route that operates between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Railroad CPKC owns this track, but lets Amtrak & Commuter rail use it. The journey typically takes about 90 minutes. Its a perfect short, traffic filled route connecting major cities. There is also a Metra route Milwaukee District North, originating @ Chicago, that splits off at Rondout, IL for Libertyville, IL. The equipment on this route consists of:

    SC-44 charger locomotive
    Amtrak Midwest venture cars
    Metra SD70MACH
    Metra gallery cars (most variants)
    Amtrak NPCU F40.

    This forum was focused mostly on Amtrak & Metra, so please give more details if you can find them. This forum is just about the basic details of the route.
     
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  2. goop#5830

    goop#5830 Active Member

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    I like how you said it’s “perfect short” even though it’s 86 miles long which the game probably won’t be able to handle.
     
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  3. rhwinner#3952

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    “Short” but casually would be the longest US route. shhhh don’t tell dtg

    and with only 6 round trips a day there’s not a lot of replay-ability here
     
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  4. eMAyTeeTee

    eMAyTeeTee Well-Known Member

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    90 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes? How many minutes do you think is in an hour?
    It's 60 so 90 minutes and 1 hour 30 minutes is the same.

    As above replies mentioned, I wouldn't call that short
     
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  5. jedi247

    jedi247 Well-Known Member

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    The Metra SD70MACHs and Amtrak Midwest SC44 Chargers would be awesome to see. For freight services, we need a CP/CPKC SD30C-ECO, SD40-2, GP20C-ECO, GP38-2, SD70ACU, AC4400CWM, ES44AC (including CPKC new-livery units), and/or CPKC ET44AC.

    A Milwaukee Road version of this route would be cool. More fallen flag railroads should be added to TSW.
     
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  6. hollis#5696

    hollis#5696 New Member

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    was 3 am writing this lmao, ill fix it
     
  7. hollis#5696

    hollis#5696 New Member

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    thats short when it comes to US passenger if we are looking for more amtrak :sob:
     
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  8. ehz0689

    ehz0689 Well-Known Member

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    It's literally an hour trip btw Chicago to Milwaukee. It can handle it
     
  9. Iwaku

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    WCML over Shap at 90+ miles:

    Still a bit on the long side for a route though.
     
  10. trainfan#6965

    trainfan#6965 Well-Known Member

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    Well it will now since the route is a bit shorter than Dresden- Leipzig
     

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